The following message from Jim Tovey is from Facebook; I am pleased to share it with you:

Many people have been comparing the new Port Credit pay parking structure to Clarkson and Streetsville. Respectfully, this is not an accurate comparator. Port Credit has become a destination in the past few years. Our festivals, culture and waterfront attract well over a million visitors a season now, and growing. A more accurate visitor comparison would be Harbourfront in Toronto, which as we know has much higher parking rates plus parking garages.

This study has been ongoing for more than three years and has had many Public meetings, as well as engaging the Port Credit BIA who supported the changes.

I do understand people being upset, no one, myself included likes any increases in anything. Here is the point.

Our previous parking operation was not adequate to control parking on side streets, or on Lakeshore.